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slightly off topic: remotely displaying Mac OS X applications

DISCUSSION Jonathan Kallay 1 participant 1 message Jan 13, 2003

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I changed the display variable with the command "setenv DISPLAY xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:0.0" (OS X's tcsh doesn't use set/export commands). I
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the host to the list of allowed hosts by running xhost. I've successfully launched remote applications on another computer that have appeared on my screen, so the steps should be the right ones...

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Subject: Re: slightly off topic: remotely displaying Mac OS X applications

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My downstairs neighbor has a computer running Mac OS X, which as we

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has a UNIX backend. For kicks, I started an X server, telnetted into

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machine, changed the DISPLAY variable to my display, and tried

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GUI application. The application did in fact launch, but on his

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in my X server. Any ideas as to why this happened?

How did you change the DISPLAY variable? Did you forget to export it? Probably your X server will not allow apps on another machine to use your display (that is generally how X servers are set up).

It is much easier to run remote X applications using ssh, which will handle them automagically, but if you can't use ssh, there is a Remote-X-Apps-mini-HOWTO that covers the details of X security.

If you have the howtos installed, it is probably on your machine, or you can look here:

Remote X Apps mini-HOWTO: Introduction (p2 of 2)

The most recent version of this document is always available on WWW

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http://www.xs4all.nl/~zweije/xauth.html. It is also available as the Linux Remote X Apps mini-HOWTO at
http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Remote-X-Apps. Linux (mini-)HOWTOs are available by http or ftp from sunsite.unc.edu.

what was sunsite.unc.edu is now calling itself
www.ibiblio.org (and ftp.ibiblio.org, BTW

Lawson
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